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Morris County Library New Fiction

Newsletter #299 - 2/18/2020
 
Here is a selection of new fiction that we have added to our collection! If any of these titles sparks your interest, just click on the title to be taken to our online catalog for more information. Happy reading!
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Forever hidden 
Book
2020
1. Forever hidden
by Peterson, Tracie, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 6)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2020]
Description: 359 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary: "When her grandfather's health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together. But everyone has secrets - including John, the hired stranger who recently arrived on their farm. To help out Havyn starts singing at a local roadhouse - but dangerous eyes grow jealous as she and John grow closer. Will they realize the peril before it is too late?"--Publisher description.
Series: Peterson, Tracie. Treasures of Nome ; bk. 1.
 
 

The Dutch maiden 
Book
2019
2. The Dutch maiden
by Moor, Marente de, 1972- author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: New York : World Editions, 2019.
Description: 309 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: Germany, 1936. Nazism is taking hold. Janna, a young Dutch girl, has been sent to the embittered aristocrat Egon von Bötticher to train as a fencer. Bötticher is as eccentric as his training methods, yet the pupil soon finds herself falling for her master; a man tormented by a wartime past in which Janna's father is implicated.
Language: Translated to English from the Dutch.
 
 

The godmother : a crime novel 
Book
2019
3. The godmother : a crime novel
by Cayre, Hannelore, 1963- author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 6 (of 7)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: Toronto : ECW Press, 2019.
Description: 185 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, is an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specializes in telephone tapping. Widowed, wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her aging mother, she's laboring to keep everyone's heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in-- and infiltrating-- the machinations of a massive drug deal. It's the first step in an entirely new career path: Patience becomes 'the Godmother'. -- adapted from back cover
 
 

Spider love song and other stories 
Book
2019
4. Spider love song and other stories
by Au, Nancy, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: Cincinnati, Ohio : Acre Books, [2019]
Description: 170 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align, whose spirits attempt flight despite dashed hopes and lean circumstances. Marginalized by race, age, and sexuality, they endeavor to create new worlds that honor their identities and their Chinese heritage.
 
 

Fortuna 
Book
2019
5. Fortuna
by Merbeth, K. S., author.
 
Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Orbit, 2019.
Description: 552 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary: "Scorpia Kaiser has always stood in Corvus's shadow until the day her older brother abandons their family to participate in a profitless war. However, becoming the heir to her mother's smuggling operation is not an easy transition for the always rebellious, usually reckless, and occasionally drunk pilot of the Fortuna, an aging cargo ship and the only home Scorpia has ever known. But when a deal turns deadly and Corvus returns from the war, Scorpia's plans to take over the family business are interrupted, and the Kaiser siblings are forced to make a choice: take responsibility for their family's involvement in a devastating massacre or lay low and hope it blows over. Too bad Scorpia was never any good at staying out of a fight."--Provided by publisher.
Series: Merbeth, K. S. Nova Vita protocol ; bk. 1.
 
 

Chilling effect 
Book
2019
6. Chilling effect
by Valdes, Valerie, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 3)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper Voyager, [2019]
Description: ix, 434 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship's hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she's built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down."--Provided by publisher.
Series: Valdes, Valerie. Chilling effect ; 1.
 
 

Blood of an exile 
Book
2019
7. Blood of an exile
by Naslund, Brian, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Tor, August 2019.
Description: 409 pages : map ; 21 cm
Summary: In this fast-paced adventure, Flawless Bershad was given a death sentence when he was caught trying to assassinate a fellow noble: fight monsters so that his death would serve the kingdom.
Series: Naslund, Brian. Dragons of Terra ; 1.
 
 

In the shadow of Vesuvius 
Book
2020
8. In the shadow of Vesuvius
by Alexander, Tasha, 1969- author.
 
Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 15)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Minotaur Books, 2020.
Description: viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary: "In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's bestselling series brings Lady Emily and her husband to Pompeii, where they uncover a recent crime in the ancient city. Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the ruins of Pompeii, she sets in motion a deadly chain of events that ties her future to the fate of a woman whose story had been lost for nearly two thousand years. Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves, have accompanied her dear friend Ivy Brandon on a trip to Pompeii. When they uncover a corpse and the police dismiss the murder as the work of local gangsters, Emily launches an investigation of her own. She seems to be aided by the archaeologists excavating the ruins, including a moody painter, the enigmatic site director, and a free-thinking American capable of sparring with even the Duke of Bainbridge. But each of them has secrets hiding among the ruins. The sudden appearance of a beautiful young woman who claims a shocking relationship to the Hargreaves family throws Emily's investigation off-course. And as she struggles to face an unsettling truth about Colin's past, it becomes clear that someone else wants her off the case-for good. Emily's resolve to unearth the facts is unshakable. But how far below the surface can she dig before she risks burying herself along with the truth?"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Alexander, Tasha, 1969- Lady Emily mystery.
 
 

The missing American 
Book
2020
9. The missing American
by Quartey, Kwei, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 7 (of 12)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2020]
Description: 419 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "When her dreams of rising through the police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her life in Accra. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency tracking down missing persons, thefts, and marital infidelities. It's not the future she imagined, but it's her best option. Meanwhile, Gordon Tilson, a middle-aged widower in Washington, DC, has found solace in an online community after his wife's passing. Through the support group, he's even met a young Ghanaian widow he really cares about, and when her sister gets into a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill--to the horror of his only son, Derek. When Gordon runs off to Ghana to surprise his new love and disappears, Derek chases after him, fearing for his father's life. The case of the missing American man will drag both Emma and Derek into a world of Sakawa scams, fetish priests, and those willing to keep things secret through death"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Quartey, Kwei. Emma Djan mysteries.
 
 

The Janes : an Alice Vega novel 
Book
2020
10. The Janes : an Alice Vega novel
by Luna, Louisa, author.
 
Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 18)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Doubleday, [2020]
Description: 356 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary: "The electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan."-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Luna, Louisa. Alice Vega novel.
 
 

Script for scandal 
Book
2019
11. Script for scandal
by Patrick, Renee, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First world edition.
Publisher, Date: London : Severn House, 2019.
Description: 232 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: "1939, Los Angeles. Lillian Frost is shocked when her friend, glamorous costume designer Edith Head, hands her the script to a new film that's about to start shooting. Streetlight Story is based on a true crime: the California Republic bank robbery of 1936. Lillian's beau, LAPD detective Gene Morrow, was one of the officers on the case; his partner, Teddy, was tragically shot dead. It seems the scriptwriter has put Gene at the centre of a scandal, twisting fact with fiction - or has he? With Gene reluctant to talk about the case, the movie quickly becoming the hottest ticket in town, a suspicious death on the Paramount studio lot and the police reopening the investigation into Teddy's death, Lillian is determined to find answers. Can Lillian and Edith uncover the truth of what happened that fateful day and clear Gene's name?"--Publisher.
Series: Patrick, Renee. Lillian Frost and Edith Head novel ; 3.
 
 

Unnatural magic 
Book
2019
12. Unnatural magic
by Waggoner, C. M., author.
 
Local Availability: 0 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Ace, 2019.
Description: 390 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "An enchanting debut historical fantasy starring a young woman with an incredible natural talent for sorcery. Onna Gebowa is determined to become a great wizard. She can write the parameters of a spell faster than any of the young men in her village school. But despite her incredible abilities, she's denied a place at the nation's premier arcane academy. Undaunted, she sails to the bustling city-state of Hexos, hoping to find a place at a university where they don't think there's anything untoward about providing a woman with a magical education... Tsira is a troll who never quite fit into her clan, despite being the leader's daughter. She decides to strike out on her own and look for work in a human city, but on her way she stumbles upon a body of a half-dead human soldier in the snow. As she slowly nurses him back to health, an unlikely bond forms between them, one that is soon tested when an unknown mage makes an attempt on Tsira's life. Far away in Hexos, the newly arrived Onna is also drawn into a mysterious, magical attack on a troll. Trolls have lived alongside--and been revered by--humans for generations, but now it appears they're being targeted by a sinister sorcery. And Onna and Tsira both begin to devote their considerable abilities into figuring out how to stop the deaths before their homeland is torn apart.."-- Provided by publisher.
 
 

The heart is a full-wild beast : and maketh many wild leaps : new and selected stories 
Book
2019
13. The heart is a full-wild beast : and maketh many wild leaps : new and selected stories
by L'Heureux, John, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Brooklyn, NY : A Public Space Books, 2019.
Description: 433 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments - of joy, doubt, transcendence - that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision - a master of storytelling and the sentence."--Amazon.com.
 
 

The poison garden 
Book
2020
14. The poison garden
by Marwood, Alex, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 8)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: [New York] : Penguin Books, 2020.
Description: 391 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "When more than one hundred members of The Ark, a mysterious and sinister apocalypse cult, are found dead by poison at their isolated community in North Wales, those left alive are scattered to the winds with few coping skills and fewer answers. For twenty-one-year-old Romy, who has never known life outside the compound, learning how to live in a world she has been taught to fear is terrifying. Now Romy must start a new life for herself--and the child growing inside her. She is determined to find the rest of her family and keep her baby safe, no matter the cost. But as the horrors of her past start to resurface, she begins to realize that leaving her old life behind won't be easy. Outside the walls of The Ark, the real evil is growing"--Page 4 of cover.
 
 

The gimmicks : a novel 
Book
2020
15. The gimmicks : a novel
by McCormick, Chris, 1987- author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 1
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Description: 354 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: "Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its center, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century history - the Armenian Genocide - whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives. This exuberant, wholly original novel begins in Kirovakan, Armenia, in 1971. Ruben Petrosian is a serious, solitary young man who cares about two things: mastering the game of backgammon to beat his archrival, Mina, and studying the history of his ancestors. Ruben grieves the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a crime still denied by the descendants of its perpetrators, and dreams of vengeance. When his orphaned cousin, Avo, comes to live with his family, Ruben's life is transformed. Gregarious and physically enormous, with a distinct unibrow that becomes his signature, Avo is instantly beloved. He is everything Ruben is not, yet the two form a bond they swear never to break. But their paths diverge when Ruben vanishes -- drafted into an extremist group that will stop at nothing to make Turkey acknowledge the genocide. Unmoored by Ruben's disappearance, Avo and Mina grow close in his absence. But fate brings the cousins together once more, when Ruben secretly contacts Avo, convincing him to leave Mina and join the extremists -- a choice that will dramatically alter the course of their lives. Left to unravel the threads of this story is Terry "Angel Hair" Krill, a veteran of both the US Navy and the funhouse world of professional wrestling, whose life intersects with Avo, Ruben, and Mina's in surprising and devastating ways. Told through alternating perspectives, The Gimmicks is a masterpiece of storytelling. Chris McCormick brilliantly illuminates the impact of history and injustice on ordinary lives and challenges us to confront the spectacle of violence and the specter of its aftermath." -- Provided by publisher.
 
 

Mary Toft; or, the rabbit queen 
Book
2019
16. Mary Toft; or, the rabbit queen
by Palmer, Dexter Clarence, 1974- author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 9)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]
Description: viii, 319 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "In 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving birth to dead rabbits. Surgeon John Howard is a rational man. His apprentice Zachary knows John is reluctant to believe anything that purports to exist outside the realm of logic. But even John cannot explain how or why Mary Toft, the wife of a local farmer, manages to give birth to a dead rabbit. When this singular event becomes a regular occurrence, John realizes that nothing in his experience as a village physician has prepared him to deal with a situation as disturbing as this. He writes to several preeminent surgeons in London, three of whom quickly arrive in the small town of Godalming ready to observe and opine. When Mary's plight reaches the attention of King George, Mary and her doctors are summoned to London, where Zachary experiences for the first time a world apart from his small-town existence, and is exposed to some of the darkest corners of the human soul. All the while, Mary lies in bed, waiting for another birth, as doubts begin to blossom among the surgeons and a growing group of onlookers grow impatient for another miracle..."--Publisher description.
 
 

A small town : a novel 
Book
2020
17. A small town : a novel
by Perry, Thomas, 1947- author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 18)
Current Holds: 2
 
Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020.
Description: 320 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "In A Small Town, twelve conspirators meticulously plan to throw open all the gates to the prison that contains them, so that more than a thousand convicts may escape and pour into the nearby small town. The newly freed prisoners rape, murder, and destroy the town-burning down homes and businesses. An immense manhunt ensues, but the twelve who plotted it all get away. After two years, all efforts by the local and federal police agencies have been in vain. The mayor and city attorney meet, and Leah Hawkins, a six-foot, two-inch former star basketball player and resident good cop, is placed on sabbatical so that she can tour the country learning advanced police procedures. The sabbatical is merely a ruse, however, as her real job is to track the infamous twelve. And kill them. Leah's mission takes her across the country, from Florida to New York, from California to an anti-government settlement deep in the Ozarks. Soon, the surviving fugitives realize what she is up to, and a race to kill or be killed ensues. Full of exhilarating twists and surprisingly resonant, A Small Town will sweep readers along on Leah's quest for vengeance"-- Provided by publisher.
 
 

Memoirs of an ex-prom queen 
Book
2019
18. Memoirs of an ex-prom queen
by Shulman, Alix Kates, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2019.
Description: xvi, 274 pages ; 21 cm
 
 

A madness of sunshine 
Book
2019
19. A madness of sunshine
by Singh, Nalini, 1977- author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 12 (of 19)
Current Holds: 0
 
Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Berkley, 2019.
Description: 344 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "Anahera Rawiri left New Zealand at twenty-one, fleeing small-town poverty and the ghosts of her childhood with no plans to look back. But eight years later, she returns, seeking familiarity as respite from the shattered remains of her new life. And despite the changes brought on by a bump in tourism--the shiny new welcome sign at the town line and a decidedly less shiny new police presence--Golden Cove appears much as it ever was: a small settlement on the savage West Coast of the South Island, populated by all the remembered faces and set against a backdrop of lush greenery, jagged cliffs, and crashing waves. Detective Will Gallagher knows all about ghosts; his own chased him out of a promising career in Christchurch, landing him as the sole cop in a quaint town where his most pressing concerns are petty theft and the occasional drunk. When Golden Cove resident Miri Hinewai goes out for a run and fails to return, Will finds himself heading up a missing person's search that rapidly escalates into an official investigation after this case is connected with similar ones from the past. As an outsider, Will begins to rely on Anahera's knowledge of the area and its residents to help him delve into Golden Cove's secrets, and to determine whether it shelters something far more dangerous than just an unforgiving landscape"-- Provided by publisher.
 
 

Followers 
Book
2020
20. Followers
by Angelo, Megan, author.
 
Local Availability: 1 (of 1)
Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 22)
Current Holds: 0
 
Publisher, Date: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House, [2020]
Description: 380 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California village where government-appointed celebrities live every moment of the day on camera, a woman named Marlow discovers a shattering secret about her past. Despite her massive popularity--twelve million loyal followers--Marlow dreams of fleeing the corporate sponsors who would do anything to keep her on-screen. When she learns that her whole family history is based on a lie, Marlow finally summons the courage to run in search of the truth, no matter the risks. Followers traces the paths of Orla, Floss and Marlow as they wind through time toward each other, and toward a cataclysmic event that sends America into lasting upheaval. At turns wry and tender, bleak and hopeful, this darkly funny story reminds us that even if we obsess over famous people we'll never meet, what we really crave is genuine human connection.
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